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Graziano Pelle – Southampton to Shandong Luneng - £13m

The Italian striker moved from the Premier League to the CSL and was, remarkably, the sixth-highest paid player in the world when his transfer went through, earning a whopping 16m euros a year, nearly £300,000 per week.

Carlos Tevez – Boca Juniors to Shanghai Shenhua – £9m

While the transfer fee was peanuts in the grand scheme of things, former West Ham man Tevez was handed an enormous £71.6m contract over two years. Yes, two years. That works out at £615,000 per week, easily the highest paid player in world football.

Alexandre Pato – Villareal to Tianjin Quanjian - £15.5m

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The former Chelsea striker moved to Spain but didn’t hit his heights, just like he failed to do at Stamford Bridge and secured a move to the CSL and Tianjian and is picking up around £4.7m a year in wages, roughly £91,000 a week.

Jackson Martinez - Atletico Madrid to Guangzhou Evergrande - £31m

After only six months at Atletico following a goal-laden time with Porto, Guangzhou took Martinez to China and are paying him 12.5m euros (£106,000 a week) per year.

His spell hasn’t been a success though as he scored only four goals in 16 games and wasn’t included in Guangzhou Evergrande’s Asian Champions League squad.